Express Dictate Download
Alacoque Whitchurch
Express Dictate software is a voice recording program that works like a dictaphone. It lets you use your PC or Mac to send dictation to your typist by email, Internet or over the computer network. Express Dictate lets you work from wherever you want, which can dramatically improve the turn around time for dictation and transcription work. As long as you have access to a computer with email, you can dictate from where you are - even overseas.
Express Dictate uses state of the art digital audio processing and compression technology to record and transmit audio. It also includes features such as automatic editing, encryption of recordings and voice activated recording.
You can also use a portable recorder while you are away from your computer. The Express Dictate Transfer from Portable Recorder ("Dock") feature lets you transfer dictations quickly and easily and send it to your typist or assistant via the internet or your computer network.
In order to use Express Dictate, the person who types your work must install Express Scribe, which includes many features including variable speed playback, foot pedal operation and more. Express Scribe can be downloaded at the Express Scribe website www.nch.com.au/scribe.
You must purchase (register) a license to use Express Dictate beyond the 14-day trial. For more information about purchasing a license, including current pricing, please visit www.nch.com.au/express/register.
I am in the process of rolling out approx. 30 users for Express Dictate. I have 5 using it regularly now to dictate case notes for a Mental Health counseling center. The problem is that some of the therapists are seeing what appears to be files "coming back" after they were sent. To further explain: Person A creates 5 new dictations. They send them to the file store like always. Express Delegate picks them up like normal. The next day when Person A comes back to work and opens up Express Dictate, they see the files that they sent the day before. It appears as though they hadn't sent them although the transcriptionist has already received them as sent through Express Delegate. What is happening here?
Person A's "Data Folder" is set to "Z:\dictation" (a user specific folder on a mapped network share on a Windows 2003 server). The "Send" to location is "J:\A" (a different user specific folder on a different mapped network share). The workstations are running either Windows 2000 or XP Pro.
We have found that using a UNC path works better than mapped drives. We had issues where files could not be deleted even though the permissions were OK. This was solved by using UNC paths such as \\dictate\jobs\matlegal\stacyrostron\ as the target folder in ED.
Thank you for the suggestion. I changed my data directory as well as the delivery address from mapped drives to UNC paths but it still did not make any difference. All old files keep showing up. Also, the doctor informed me that it is taking extremely long to send files now as compared to when she started using the software. I emailed NCH support over a week ago and still have not even received an acknowledgment of my request.
I haven't started using Delegate so I cannot really help you with that. Have a look at what happens to the file movements between the folder from when it is sent as a job to it being picked up by Delegate (remember there is a default inbox and outbox folder in Delegate, these aren't pointing to the original folder are they? they seem to be temporary holding folders) and also does Delegate delete it from the source folder when it puts it out to the destination (scribe) folder?
Watching the folders in real time should give you an idea. And if you close Dictate then reopen it (same day) do the files reappear in Dictate? COuld it be some smartypants backup or replication tool doing the deed?
Thank you for responding so quickly. I apologize for not getting back to read your response. I have been swamped with projects and have come across yet more problems with the NCH suite of programs... I'll have to set myself a reminder to check back for updates.
It seems that (and I am still testing) if in the Settings page on the Options tab, if we check both "Prompt for Data" and "Use Additional Prompt", we do not see notes reappearing. The only visible difference to the file names (as viewed in explorer) is that they no longer contain "dictation ##" but have the "date of service" shown as that is the data we put in the new field.
Before changing the naming convention of files, once you deleted the files that came back (first thing in the morning), it did not matter whether you closed and re-opened the Dictate software or not; they would not show up the same day. They only came back with the next log off and log on (usually the next morning). No, we do not have any backups restoring the files or any replication setup on this server.
We are using the Dictation "live" as we are not sending out files from Delegate regularly yet as we are attempting to regulate load on the individual transcriptionists. It is not nearly as convenient to pull files from one person and give to another with Scribe as it was to take physical tapes and give them to someone else. Asking them to go through and "save as" on 30-40 files to move them to another person is not reasonable.
When the therapist (using wkstn0001) finishes dictating for the day, they highlight all files and send to the "\\server01\dictation\%username%\A" folder. Delegate (on wkstn0013) looks to those specific folders and picks up the files and MOVES (delete from original location) them to the "C:\Program Files\NCH Swift Sound\Delegate\In" folder, which is on wkstn0013. Once our Transcription Supervisor decides which of the transcriptionists are going to type which files, she highlights them and sends them to the \\server01\dictation\transcription\%username% folder. Delegate also copies them to the "C:\Program Files\NCH Swift Sound\Delegate\Out" folder on wkstn0013. Then, the transcriptionist on wkstn0024 opens Express Scribe. The software looks to "\\server01\dictation\transcription\%username%" to download the new audio files.
Unfortunately, now I have noticed that Delegate does not seem to send all files to the \\server01\dictation\transcription\%username% folder. When sending multiple audio files for multiple days (Ex: 25 total files for 5 days worth of dictation for one therapist), only one file for each day shows up on the "\\server01\dictation\transcription\%username%\" folder for the Scribe software to pick up although all show up in the "C:\Program Files\NCH Swift Sound\Delegate\Out" folder on wkstn0013.
When you attempt to sort by any of the columns, they seem to sort by some internal value that makes no logical sense from the user's point of view. They will not sort by date, name, or any other field that would be helpful to organize what is close to 1,000 files and growing. (Makes for one "not so happy" transcription coordinator when she needs to find 5 files in the list to send!)
Periodically, Delegate will stop downloading new files (the color scheme of the program changes) and has to be completely shut down and restarted (not just minimized to the taskbar as it will to run as a background service).
When the transcription coordinator has a sizeable amount of files selected (not in a contiguous grouping either) to send them to one of our transcriptionists and someone upstream sends from their Dictate program causing Delegate program to find and pick them up, the list she so painstakingly took time to select is lost. She has to start over and find the files again (all while risking loosing the selection again).
Overall, I am not impressed with either the Delegate or Scribe programs; (insert sarcasm) but what should I expect for the price tag... Express Dictate only redeems itself because our technologically impaired staff have been able to figure it out fairly quickly and we have been able to recover lost dictations when Delegate and Scribe loose them.
Express dictate is a desktop computer dictation program with built in FTP functionality which allows you to upload your completed dictations from within the program. It also supports both MAC OS and Windows.
When you click on the link to start the download it is a good idea to choose 'save' rather than 'run'. Once the download has finished go to the location that the file was saved to and double-click on it to start the installation process. Follow the prompts (accepting all the defaults is fine) and complete the installation.
Once the installation is complete you can safely delete the downloaded installation package. It is a good idea for those not confident with the whole process as it avoids any confusion when using the program. To use the program you click on Start -> Programs -> NCH Software Suite -> Express Dictate or you can use the newly created shortcut on your desktop it you chose that option during installation. NB: you do not run the downloaded installation package to USE the software once it is installed.
Click the create button to add a new recipient profile. At the first dialog enter a name for the new profile I.e. Online Transcription and then click next. On the second screen change the send method to FTP in the left hand pane and then eneter the connection details in the main window.
Express Dictate Professional is a paid app for Android published in the Office Suites & Tools list of apps, part of Business.
The company that develops Express Dictate Professional is NCH Software. The latest version released by its developer is 11.00. This app was rated by 1 users of our site and has an average rating of 3.0.
To install Express Dictate Professional on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2024-04-17 and was downloaded 157 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Express Dictate Professional as malware as malware if the download link to com.nchsoftware.pocketdictate is broken.
How to install Express Dictate Professional on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Express Dictate Professional is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Express Dictate Professional will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Express Dictate Professional will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.